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1st Jenter run of the year

I put my Cloak in a couple of days ago and confined the queen last night. I released her today and she had the Jenter full. I'm following Michael's advice and packing the top box with bees and feeding heavily. It's the right time of year here so I'm hoping for a good yield. Pictures in a day or two.

I have done two runs now. The first I used the cloak board and ended up with 8 viable queens in Jenter cups plus two on other frames. The second run I used a queenless hive where I had a mean queen I wanted to dispatch. They were queenless a week, lots of bees, reduced space, fed, and I only ended up with 3 nice big cells. They should hatch yesterday or today. Cooler rainy weather may have been a factor. I really expected that to be a big run. I'll do another run next week probably.